Michael Vick tops in jersey sales

With bastille abaft him, anew active Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is the top dog if it comes to acknowledged NFL jerseys.

The bedevilled felon, appear from bastille in May afterwards confined 18 months for his captivation in an actionable dog-fighting ring, had two of the top-selling NFL jerseys for the anniversary catastrophe Aug. 30.

Although Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre had the individual top-selling jersey with 4,861 sold, Vick’s abroad and home jerseys were the additional and third top-sellers. Combined, they totaled 6,140 shirts, eclipsing the sales of Favre jerseys, according to SportsOneSource, which advance purchases for the antic appurtenances industry. Vick’s “alternate” atramentous Eagles jersey awash 286 that week.

Vick’s numbers are decidedly absorbing because that Dick’s Antic Appurtenances currently does not backpack his jerseys at its 409 stores, according to Jim Delaney, buyer of Activate Sports & Entertainment, a Boston business firm.

“It goes to appearance the ability of the Eagles’ fan abject and the affection that they accept for that team,” Delaney said. “Apparently they’re accommodating to action Vick accretion if it agency added (wins). If not, watch out how bound those jerseys clutter the parking lot.”

Jersey sales for covering pro athletes about acceleration if they’re active by addition team. Similarly to Vick, who was active by the Eagles on Aug. 13, Favre came out of retirement for a additional time to accompany the Vikings 5 canicule later.

“Had Vick gone aback to Atlanta, area humans already endemic Vick jerseys, you wouldn’t accept apparent a fasten in sales,” Delaney said.

Dan Lebowitz, controlling administrator of Northeastern University’s Sport in Society center, says citizens accept a adventitious to attending at themselves introspectively through Vick.

“Do we wish to be a nation about acceptance and accepting accretion or do we wish to be a nation that continues to be castigating above the point of abuse that he’s already served?” he said. “We’ve apparent in the endure few weeks that (U.S. Sen. Ted) Kennedy had that adventitious for redemption, and I’m hopeful that Michael Vick will accept that chance. The actuality his are the top-selling jerseys may allege to that fact.”

 

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